rakudo 8156be: OUTPUT«Nominal type check failed for parameter '@placeholder'; expected Positional but got Int instead␤ in <anon> at line 22:/tmp/wTSe6rZ1AE␤ in main program body at line 22:/tmp/wTSe6rZ1AE␤»

rakudo 8156be: OUTPUT«Nominal type check failed for parameter '@placeholder'; expected Positional but got Int instead␤ in <anon> at line 22:/tmp/EDwC0_0snc␤ in main program body at line 22:/tmp/EDwC0_0snc␤»

std : OUTPUT«[31m===[0mSORRY![31m===[0m␤Whitespace is required between alphanumeric tokens at /tmp/8Zk7lTSUX1 line 1:␤------> [32m123[33m⏏[31mb[0m␤Two terms in a row at /tmp/8Zk7lTSUX1 line 1:␤------> [32m123[33m⏏[31mb[0m␤ expecting any of:␤ POST␤ bracketed infix␤ infix or

in my view, string indexing being done by substr() instead of .[] is a similar case of language simplification: if two operations don't do the same thing (even if it looks like the same at first sight),

Should the series operator really short-circuit on non-number values? I had the idea of returning a segment of a linked list like so: return ($.right, *.right ... $last_item), but it's returning a random number of items, I gues based on whether an intermediate item has an address that's greater than $last_item.

flussence: last night i made some changes to the timeout handling for try.rakudo.org if you want to test any of them out, now there are 3 different levels of timeouts, the repl server can time out waiting on the perl6 instance, if it does it kills the perl6 instance and restarts it, the server can timeout waiting on the repl server, and the client can timeout waiting on the web server

apparently in IO::Socket::INET the timeout code is commented out for some reason, even though the docs say that it accepts a timeout and has a timeout function to set the timeout, but it doesn't actually ever timeout

rakudo 74a156: OUTPUT«Method 'succ' not found for invocant of class 'Block'␤ in 'RangeIter::reify' at line 4723:CORE.setting␤ in 'List::at_pos' at line 1␤ in 'Any::postcircumfix:<[ ]>' at line 1688:CORE.setting␤ in 'Parcel::at_pos' at line 1␤ in 'Any::postcircumfix:<[ ]>' at line

For perl 6 implementations like Rakudo that do not also implement their own VM and rely on Parrot, is there any reason to believe that user defined data structure will perform worse than a built-in as is the case in perl 5?

TimToady - I haven't noticed a significant number of Synopsis commits lately. Does this mean that we are nearly converged, that you have been busy with other things, that you are "thinking" or something else entirely?